Running the ICE Board

To run the ICE Board, open 2 terminals. In both, activate the correct environment for running the ICE Boards by running

conda activate pychfpga

Then in the first terminal, go to the following directory

/home/wvurail/CHIME-repos/pychfpga_board52/pychfpga/

and then run the following command

./raw_acq.py

Once the raw_acq.py begins to run, go to the second terminal. Go to the same directory

/home/wvurail/CHIME-repos/pychfpga_board52/pychfpga/

and run the following command

./fpga_master.py ../../../repos/tone_ops/configs/pychfpga/config_weathertop_shuffle.yaml:jfc.GBO

This first argument starts the data acquisition of the ICE Board according to the configuration given by the second argument.

Note: if you want to change how often the data is taken, go into the configuration file (config_weathertop_shuffle.yaml) and edit the variable called baseline_capture_rate under raw_data_capture: and change it. This value is in units of frames per second. A higher number will collect adc data at a higher rate.